The No. 1 reason Canadians report taking work-related training as adults is to perform more effectively in their current jobs, far ahead of earning more money or getting a better job.
The Miniature Earth
Happy Thanksgiving. It is a good time to be reminded that the earth is miniature and only some of us have much for which to be thankful.
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Stories from Beechwood Cemetery
Ottawa's Beechwood cemetery is beautiful at all times of the year, and especially so on crisp Fall days when its winding roads through wooded groves feel very 19th century.
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Information Architecture
Information architecture looks at the digital structures of information and software that lay beneath the ubiquitous communication technologies of the internet.
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Book Notes
The Non-Designer’s Design Book
Design for Nondesigners: Design and Typographic Principles for the Novice by Robin Williams delivers the goods for those of us who have no professional graphic design experience but still need to create simple web sites, brochures or business cards.
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Book Notes
Mapping Hacks
More of us are living in fundamentally mobile worlds; Mapping Hacks: Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography helps add a geographically meaningful component to navigate this world that is intriguing to not only to hackers.
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Dispatch: On Summer Reading
In which I ponder openly about the lack of professionally designed summer reading lists for bus commuters, and modestly propose such a list.
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Learning by Observation
Parks Canada Visitor's Guide to Gros Morne National Park makes a noteworthy connection between observing and learning in this list of Do's for watching wild animals.
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This proposed framework of reflecting, enquiring and creating bridges two dichotomies found in professional development: between learning and practice, and between work and learning.